unsafety

American  

[uhn-seyf-tee] / ʌnˈseɪf ti /

noun

1. unsafe state or condition; exposure to danger or risk; insecurity.

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Other Word Forms

• unsafetied adjective

Etymology

Origin of unsafety

First recorded in 1590–1600; un- ¹ + safety

Example Sentences

"These appeals have included focus upon key evidential aspects of the case. Both appeals were rejected and in 2006 Lord Justice Kay commented that there was no 'element of unsafety' relating to the original convictions of both defendants," it said.

From BBC

For the worse, the unsafety of public venues in general.

From Los Angeles Times

“And hopefully in the next year that safety valve, or unsafety valve, won’t be available to people and that’s hugely important.”

From Los Angeles Times

“In the wild,” Brosschot and his colleagues wrote in a 2018 paper, “organisms have survived not by waiting for more evidence of threat but instead by erring on the side of caution.... Those who fled at the first sign of unsafety continued to live and pass their genes.”

From Scientific American

The Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress co-written by psychophysiologist Julian Thayer links the unconsciously perceived unsafety of prolonged stressors like low social status, early life adversity or loneliness to hypervigilance that increases the odds of developing heart disease.

From Scientific American